Twenty years after businessman Marvin Leonard constructed the course at Colonial, he commissioned Robert Trent Jones Snr to build another 18 holes at Shady Oaks Country Club, disregarding the advice of his friend and advisor Ben Hogan who thought the site was too hilly.

Constructed in a manner unlike anything that’s been built before in China, the Shanqin Bay golf course just might become the benchmark for those still to come... assuming the authorities do not commandeer the fairways.

Talking Stick Golf Club boasts two Coore & Crenshaw-designed courses open to the public. Fairways on the shorter Piipaash, formerly known as the South layout, are routed around a number of man-made water hazards which come into play on five holes.

Trinity Forest Golf Club opened for play in October 2016 and it was designed in a links-like style by the hot architectural duo of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw. The club will host the AT&T Byron Nelson tournament in 2018.

Ben Crenshaw and Bill Coore laid out the Warren golf course at Notre Dame in 1999 and it has since hosted a number of high profile competitions, and will host the U.S. Senior Open Championship in 2019.

The Saguaro course at We-Ko-Pa Golf Club opened in December 2006 and it was the second course built at this stunning facility. Located to the north east of Scottsdale, on a site developed by the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, it offers daily fee golfers the use of two spectacular layouts...